The Hittite Middle Voice

The Hittite Middle Voice
Author: Guglielmo Inglese
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 654
Release: 2020-07-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004432302

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In this book, Inglese offers a new description of the middle voice in Hittite, both from a synchronic and a diachronic perspective. The analysis is based on a corpus of original Hittite texts and is framed within current trends in linguistic typology.

Voice syncretism

Voice syncretism
Author: Nicklas N. Bahrt
Publisher: Language Science Press
Total Pages: 340
Release:
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3961103194

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This book provides a comprehensive typological account of voice syncretism, focusing on resemblance in formal verbal marking between two or more of the following seven voices: passives, antipassives, reflexives, reciprocals, anticausatives, causatives, and applicatives. It covers voice syncretism from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives, and has been structured in a manner that facilitates convenient access to information about specific patterns of voice syncretism, their distribution and development. The book is based on a survey of voice syncretism in 222 geographically and genealogically diverse languages, but also thoroughly revisits previous research on the phenomenon. Voice syncretism is approached systematically by establishing and exploring patterns of voice syncretism that can logically be posited for the seven voices of focus in the book: 21 simplex patterns when one considers two of the seven voices sharing the same marking (e.g. reflexive-reciprocal syncretism), and 99 complex patterns when one considers more than two of the voices sharing the same marking (e.g. reflexive-reciprocal-anticausative syncretism). In a similar vein, 42 paths of development can logically be posited if it is assumed that voice marking in each of the seven voices can potentially develop one of the other six voice functions (e.g. reflexive voice marking developing a reciprocal function). This approach enables the discussion of both voice syncretism that has received considerable attention in the literature (notably middle syncretism involving the reflexive, reciprocal, anticausative and/or passive voices) and voice syncretism that has received little or not treatment in the past (including seemingly contradictory patterns such as causative-anticausative and passive-antipassive syncretism). In the survey almost all simplex patterns are attested in addition to seventeen complex patterns. In terms of diachrony, evidence is presented and discussed for twenty paths of development. The book strives to highlight the variation found in voice syncretism across the world’s languages and encourage further research into the phenomenon.

Grammatical Change in Indo-European Languages

Grammatical Change in Indo-European Languages
Author: Vít Bubeník
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2009
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027248214

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The product of a group of scholars who have been working on new directions in Historical Linguistics, this book is focused on questions of grammatical change, and the central issue of grammaticalization in Indo-European languages. Several studies examine particular problems in specific languages, but often with implications for the IE phylum as a whole. Given the historical scope of the data (over a period of four millennia) long range grammatical changes such as the development of gender differences, strategies of definiteness, the prepositional phrase, or of the syntax of the verbal diathesis and aspect, are also treated. The shifting relevance of morphology to syntax, and syntax to morphology, a central motif of this research, has provoked lively debate in the discipline of Historical Linguistics.

Proto-Indo-European Syntax and its Development

Proto-Indo-European Syntax and its Development
Author: Leonid Kulikov
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2015-07-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027268282

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Although for some scholars the very possibility of syntactic reconstruction remains dubious, numerous studies have appeared reconstructing a variety of basic elements of Proto-Indo-European syntax based on evidence available particularly from ancient and/or archaic Indo-European languages. The papers in this volume originate from the Workshop “PIE Syntax and its Development” (Thessaloniki 2011), which aimed to bring together scholars interested in these problems and to shine new light on current research into ancient Indo-European syntax. Special attention was paid to the development of the hypothetical reconstructed features within the documented history of Indo-European languages. The articles in this volume were originally published in the Journal of Historical Linguistics Vol. 3:1 (2013).

The Middle Voice in Ancient Greek

The Middle Voice in Ancient Greek
Author: Rutger Allan
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2019-09-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004409068

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Allan, Rutger The Middle Voice in Ancient Greek. A Study of Polysemy. 2003 The great variety of usage types of the middle voice in Ancient Greek has excited the interest of generations of classical scholars. A number of intriguing questions, however, still have been left unanswered. What is the exact relation between the various middle usage types? How can the semantic element common to all usage types be defined? What is the relation between the middle voice and the passive voice in the aorist and future stems? To provide an answer to these questions, this study takes a novel approach. Following recent developments in Cognitive Linguistics, the middle voice in Ancient Greek is analysed as a polysemous network category. This approach results in a unified description of the semantics of the middle voice which also accounts for diachronical developments. ASCP 11 (2003), 286 p. Cloth - 79.00 EURO, ISBN: 9050633684

The Laws of the Hittites

The Laws of the Hittites
Author: Harry A Hoffner Jr
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2023-08-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004669086

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A complete tool for understanding this oldest collection (about 1650 BC) of laws made by an Indo-European people. Incorporating many tablets published since the 1959 edition, and utilizing the latest lexical and grammatical insights, the author presents the text in the "score" format with translation, commentary, glossary, indexes, plates and bibliography.

A Grammar of the Hittite Language

A Grammar of the Hittite Language
Author: Harry A. Hoffner Jr.
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 711
Release: 2024-09-04
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1646023064

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Since its publication in 2008, A Grammar of the Hittite Language has been the definitive Hittite reference and teaching tool. This new edition brings Hoffner and Melchert’s essential work up to date, incorporating the dramatic progress achieved in the field over the past fifteen years. Heavily revised and expanded, the second edition recasts the discussion of topics to better serve the linguistically informed reader. A reorganized presentation of the synchronic facts makes them accessible to both Hittitologists and linguists interested in Hittite for historical or typological purposes. Part 1 provides a thorough overview of Hittite grammar that is grounded in abundant textual examples. Part 2 is a tutorial that guides students through a series of graded lessons with illustrative sentences for translation. The tutorial is keyed to the reference grammar and includes extensive updated notes. Taken together with Part 2: Tutorial, which guides students through a series of graded lessons keyed to this reference grammar, the work remains the most comprehensive and detailed Hittite grammar ever produced.

Letters from the Hittite Kingdom

Letters from the Hittite Kingdom
Author: Harry A. Hoffner
Publisher: Society of Biblical Lit
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2009
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 1589832124

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Origins of the Greek Verb

Origins of the Greek Verb
Author: Andreas Willi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 747
Release: 2018-01-18
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1107195551

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This book traces the evolution of the Indo-European verbal system from the early proto-language to the period of the first Greek texts.

A New Look at the Indo-European Verb

A New Look at the Indo-European Verb
Author: Luca Panieri
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2015-09-25
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1326431021

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In this book there is described a new and innovative hypothesis on the Proto-Indoeuropean verb system. Many unresolved issues of historical-comparativereconstruction can find a straightforward solution in the light of this hypothesis; such as the origin of tense, mood, aspect, diathesis, etc. You will see that the original verb system was quite different from both the Hittite and the Greek one. Many verb categories, which were very important for the daughter languages, did not even exist in the protolanguage, and other categories, which were originally central to the protolanguage, have disappeared in all the descendant languages. In this regard, the key concept is the "control on action by the subject". This was what really mattered in the protolanguage.